Inference for Epidemics with Three Levels of Mixing: Methodology and Application to a Measles Outbreak

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 578-599

  Britton, Tom ^a   Kypraios, Theodore ^b   O'Neill, Philip D ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Epidemic model; Hagelloch; Infectious disease data; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Measles

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051874213     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2010.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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